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Market Street, Sydney
Market Street is a street in the city centre of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It runs from Sussex Street near Darling Harbour in the west, to Elizabeth Street at St. James railway station in the east. Market Street is located in the heart of the Sydney central business district shopping precinct. The street gets its name due to the street being located at the CBD’s shopping precinct. The two flagship David Jones department stores in Sydney are located in Market Street, diagonally across the Castlereagh Street intersection. Market Street provides the southern border of Pitt Street Mall and features such shopping centres as Centrepoint, the Queen Victoria Building and Sydney Central Plaza (which includes the Sydney flagship Myer department store). The State Theatre is located between Pitt and George Street intersections. A footbridge at the end of Market street provides a direct link to Pyrmont Bridge and Darling Harbour. All traffic travels one way along Mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Distributor (Sydney)
The Western Distributor is a grade-separated motorway that is primarily elevated for the majority of its route on the western fringe of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. From its northern terminus, it links the southern end of the Bradfield Highway at the Sydney Harbour Bridge to Victoria Road in Rozelle, at its western terminus near . The freeway is designated as part of the A4 for its entire distance. History The Western Distributor came to be out of the realisation in the early 1960s that the existing roads that supported the Harbour Bridge would not cope with contemporary and projected traffic volumes. Due to existing infrastructure and buildings in the area, it was decided to build a viaduct to carry traffic above the city streets. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jones Limited
David Jones Pty Limited, trading as David Jones (colloquially DJs), is an Australian High-End department store, owned since 2014 by South African retail group Woolworths Holdings Limited. David Jones was founded in 1838 by David Jones, a Welsh merchant and future politician, after he emigrated to Australia, and is the oldest continuously-operating department store in the world still trading under its original name. In 1980, the Adelaide Steamship Company acquired a substantial interest in David Jones, culminating in a complete takeover. The recession of the early 1990s caused the department store assets to be floated as "David Jones Limited". For the next two decades, the company went through turbulent times, eventually leading to discussions of a merger with Myer, and then, in 2014, a takeover by South African retail group Woolworths Holdings Limited. In 2016, Woolworths sold the iconic 1938 Market Street store and announced the relocation of DJ's head office to Richmond, Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Rugby Football League
The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is the governing body of rugby league in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission. It was formed in Sydney on 8 August 1907 and was known as the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) until 1984. From 1908 to 1994, the NSWRL ran Sydney's, then New South Wales', and eventually Australia's top-level rugby league club competition from their headquarters (or "Bunker" as it was nicknamed during the Super League war) on Phillip Street, Sydney. The organisation is responsible for administering the New South Wales rugby league team. New South Wales Rugby League clubs Current New South Wales members The following clubs are the member clubs of the NSWRL. NSWRL The New South Wales Rugby Football League was responsible for the introduction of rugby league into New South Wales in 1907. Since that time the NSWRFL has built a rich tradition at all levels of the game. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J J Giltinan
James Joseph Giltinan (1866–1950) was an Australian entrepreneur who helped to introduce the sport of rugby league football to Australia. The J. J. Giltinan Shield, which is awarded annually to the National Rugby League minor premiers, was named after him. Founder and administrator Founder of rugby league in Australia On 8 August 1907 at Bateman's Crystal Hotel, George Street, Sydney politician Henry Hoyle chaired a meeting of fifty, including several leading rugby players and officials. The New South Wales Rugby Football League, the body that would go on to conduct the major national rugby league premiership of Australia, was founded and Giltinan was elected its first secretary. Before that he had invited the 1907 " All Golds" New Zealand professional rugby team to tour Australia ''en route'' to Britain. Giltinan led the first Kangaroo tour to England in 1908. An all round sports enthusiast, Giltinan had also officiated as an umpire in representative cricket matches. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Trumper
Victor Thomas Trumper (2 November 1877 – 28 June 1915) was an Australian cricketer known as the most stylish and versatile batsman of the Golden Age of cricket, capable of playing match-winning innings on wet wickets his contemporaries found unplayable. Archie MacLaren said of him, "Compared to Victor I was a cab-horse to a Derby winner". Trumper was also a key figure in the foundation of rugby league in Australia. Early life Trumper was probably born in Sydney;Bede Nairn,Trumper, Victor Thomas (1877–1915), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 12, MUP, 1990, pp. 269–272. retrieved 13 January 2010 no definite record of his birth exists. Trumper's parents are believed to be Charles Thomas Trumper and his wife Louisa Alice "Louie", ''née'' Coghlan. Trumper was educated at Crown Street Superior Public School and showed early ability as a batsman. When only 17 years old Trumper made 67 runs for a team of promising juniors against Andrew Stoddart's touring English te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anzac Bridge
The Anzac Bridge is an eight-lane cable-stayed bridge that carries the Western Distributor (A4) across Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Glebe Island (part of the suburb of Rozelle), on the western fringe of the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge forms part of the road network leading from the central business district, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Cross City Tunnel to the Inner West and Northern Suburbs. History Glebe Island Bridges There were two bridges over Johnstons Bay before the construction of the Anzac Bridge. The first bridge was constructed as part of a project to move the abattoirs out of central Sydney, and to construct public abattoirs at Glebe Island. The first pile of the original bridge was driven in October 1860. The bridge was opened in 1862 and was a timber beam bridge long and wide with a swing section on the eastern side. It replaced a double steam punt crossing. The second Glebe Island Bridge was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrmont, New South Wales
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. It is also part of the Darling Harbour region. As of 2011, it is Australia's most densely populated suburb. Pyrmont was once a vital component of Sydney's industrial waterfront, with wharves, shipbuilding yards, factories and woolstores. As industry moved out, the population and the area declined. In recent years it has experienced redevelopment with an influx of residents and office workers. History Pyrmont contained a mineral spring of cold water bubbling out of a rock and was thus named for a similar natural spring in Bad Pyrmont, close to Hanover, Germany. Thomas Jones was granted of land on the peninsula in 1795. Land was sold to Obadiah Ikin in 1796 for 10 pounds, which he then sold to Captain John Macarthur in 1799 for a gallon of rum. Pyrmont was the site of quarries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultimo, New South Wales
Ultimo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Ultimo is adjacent to the Sydney central business district in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City of Sydney west of the Darling Harbour area, and is bordered by Pyrmont to the North, the Sydney CBD and Chinatown/Haymarket to the East, Broadway and Chippendale to the South, and Glebe and Wentworth Park to the West. Broadway, New South Wales, Broadway is a locality around the road of the same name, which is located on the borders of Ultimo, Chippendale, New South Wales, Chippendale and Glebe, New South Wales, Glebe. History "Ultimo" was originally the name of the estate of John Harris, (Australian settler), Dr John Harris, on granted to him by Philip Gidley King, Governor King in 1803, for his military service and for aiding the governor in curtailing the illegal trading of rum by a corrupt group in the NSW Corps (the Rum Corps). It was named for a clerical error in a legal cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrmont Bridge
The Pyrmont Bridge, a heritage-listed swing bridge across Cockle Bay, is located in Darling Harbour, part of Port Jackson, west of the central business district in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. Opened in 1902, the bridge initially carried motor vehicle traffic via the Pyrmont Bridge Road between the central business district and . Since 1981 the bridge has carried pedestrian and bicycle traffic only, as motor vehicles were diverted to adjacent freeway overpasses. The bridge was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 28 June 2002, the centenary of its opening. The Jimmy Barnes' 1985 song "I'd die to be with you Tonight" was filmed on the Bridge, with it in the swing-out configuration. (See:I'd Die to be with You Tonight) History The first Pyrmont Bridge was opened on 17 March 1858, and was a wooden pile bridge with an iron centre 'swing panel' to allow ships to pass. In the first two weeks 20,000 pedestrians paid the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Theatre (Sydney)
The State Theatre is a heritage-listed theatre, located at 47-51 Market Street, in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The theatre was designed by Henry Eli White with assistance from John Eberson and built between 1926 to 1929. It hosts film screenings, live theatre and musical performances, and since 1974 it has been the home of the annual Sydney Film Festival. It is also known as State Building and Wurlitzer Organ. The property is privately owned. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Located on the site former offices of the ''Evening News'' newspaper, building commenced on the State Theatre in 1927 with an estimated construction budget of . The theatre was designed by the eminent New Zealand theatre architect Henry Eli White, the designer of some 120 theatres in Australia and New Zealand. It remains as a rare and pre-eminent example of his firm's w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myer
Myer (stylised MYER, sometimes known as Myers) is an Australia, Australian mid-range to upscale department store chain. It trades in all Australian states and one of Australia's two self-governing territories. Myer retails a broad range of products across women's, men's, and children's clothing, footwear and accessories; cosmetics and fragrance; homewares; electrical; connected home; furniture; toys; books and stationery; food and confectionery; and travel goods. Myer's primary department store rival is David Jones Limited, David Jones. Myer has long been Australia's largest department store by revenue and store count. Myer's current brand ambassadors are Elyse Knowles, who was signed in 2018, and Kris Smith. In 2019, Myer engaged Australian actress Asher Keddie as the brand's 'Style Ambassador', and Western Australian Indigenous model Sarsha Chisholm as the brand's 'Youth Ambassador'. The department store also engages a number of other personalities, including Rachael Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Central Plaza
This is a list of notable shopping centres in Australia. It does not include street shopping strips such as Chapel Street, Melbourne or Oxford Street, Sydney which were prevalent in Australian cities until the 1960s. Australian Capital Territory * Canberra Centre, City * Erindale Centre, Wanniassa * Kippax Fair, Holt * Majura Park Shopping Centre, Majura Park * South.Point Tuggeranong, Greenway * Westfield Belconnen, Belconnen * Westfield Woden (formerly Woden Plaza and Woden Shopping Square), Phillip New South Wales Sydney City * Broadway Shopping Centre, Sydney CBD * Central Park Mall, Sydney CBD * The Galeries, Sydney CBD * Glasshouse, Sydney CBD * Harbourside, Sydney CBD * Market City, Sydney CBD * MidCity, Sydney CBD * Queen Victoria Building, Sydney CBD * The Strand Arcade, Sydney CBD * Westfield Sydney, Sydney CBD * World Square, Sydney CBD * 25 Martin Place, Sydney CBD Greater Sydney * Ashfield Mall, Ashfield * Bankstown Central, Bankstown * Bass Hill Plaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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